2. Panglong Agreement, minthu te lakah Karen te kihel lo hi. Observer bek aa, ah pai uhhi. It was only the force of will of Aung San that was able to bring the minorities together at the Panglong Conference in the Shan State in February 1947, from which the Union of Burma was final forged. Significantly, the Karen, who went into revolt in 1949, attended the meeting as only observers. But it was a tenuous union, for (as note) under the constitution of 1947 the Shan State and the Karenni State (Kayah State) were theoretically able to secede from the union after a ten-year trial period and a referendum. Excerpt from; Burma, The State of Myanmar by David I Steinberg. Ataktak ei Chin Special Division leh Kachin State te kum 10 kisin (A ten-year trail) khitteh tua Union of Burma pan, apaikhia thei ding ii hi tuan kei hi.

Abolition of Chiefs and Origins of Chin National Day:- Following the Independence on January 4, 1948, a meeting was held at the military Shed (Later demolished and where now stands the Town Hall) in Falam, the Administration Headquarters of Chin Hills. At the meeting Thang Za Kai (Thawng Za Khai in at khial hi.) from Tiddim made a motion that the Chiefs and the headmen under the old hereditary system be abolished. Con Mang from Laizo seconded it. Since that motion had been orchestrated by Parliamentary Secretary Captain Mang Tung Nung before the meeting by having mainly the supporters and anti-Chiefs and anti-headmen at the meeting, it was carried out “unanimously.”

Later, the Chin Ministry proposed a Chin National Day on the 20th February every year, and that was adopted by the Chin Affairs Council. So “Chin National Day” was born. U Zahre Lian pen Zahau Uk-pi te ahih man’ in hi bang in na zom lai hi. It was ironic that the day when the resolution was passed to arbitrarily and suddenly remove the Chiefs and headmen who had been a part of the traditional cultural system for many generations was to be called Chin National Day. (From Zahre Lian of Burma.)